New Color posted a track from their upcoming EP, Happiness. It's out on 3/12, and it rules. I tracked the drums and vocals for it at Minbal.

Just dropped a few orders of Options stuff to the post office. Also found a few more shirts and updated the bandcamp webstore - once this particular iteration of the glow-in-the-dark shirts is gone, they're gone forever. More shirts will be made, but each run has different variations to keep things ‪#‎fresh‬.

Also, Coaster will be at SXSW, which also means Options 3-piece-rock-band will be at SXSW! If you can help either band with a showcase, I'd super appreciate it! Tryna play as much as humanly possible during my time in Austin.

Options band's next show is 2/11 at the Empty Bottle with Des Ark, which is very cool. We'll be playing some stuff from LP5 for the first time live!

what else:

- finally updated my Downwrite page, and streaming a new Options home demo there. If you've ever wanted me to write a custom song for you at a very relatively low price, click click click.

- Bathing Resorts' final EP is getting mastered

- Coaster's new EP is getting mastered

- I'm playing with Great Deceivers AND Nnamid's SDSSP this weekend at the same show

Ah, the faithful laundromat-update:
- Pyramid Scheme show tonight
- Recording with Great Deceivers next week
- A couple small things left to overdub for the Coaster EP, and it'll be in the can
- Getting my amp fixed so Options LP will sound better
- Mixing records for Single Player, Anthony Sanders, Winter Classic, and more
- LOTTA really really good shows coming up
- ok bye!

Coaster is playing with Ratboys, Bedroom Sons, and Cashed Out on Tuesday at the Keep. Here's some more information. Got some more really rad shows coming up with Coaster, as well as Options, Pyramid Scheme, and Nnamdi Ogbonnaya.

Bass and drums have been tracked for the next Options record, and I'm starting guitars tomorrow. Gonna be recording with nearly every band I'm in within the next couple of months, which is really exciting, and hopefully touring in the spring as well. Nature's Neighbor's 2nd full length was just sent off to get mastered, and I am really really stoked on the way it turned out. If you haven't heard Mike's first record Lifa, it's awesome and you should definitely take a listen.

quick update from the laundromat:

- Great Deceivers and Coaster both have shows comin' right up this month!
- I'm beginning tracking for the next Options LP in 6 days
- Mary at Rare-States did a 3rd printing of those neat Options glow-in-the-dark shirts! You can get one on Bandcamp
- Playing at Lincoln Hall for the first time on 12/18 with Nnamdi Ogbonnaya
- Pyramid Scheme will (finally) be recording songs within the next month

Finished tracking for Winter Classic's new EP at Minbal last Sunday, and it sounds really great. The band and I are mutually stoked on how it turned out, and I'm psyched to dig into mixing it when I'm back from tour, which BY THE WAY, starts tuesday! Check out the "live" page for updated locations/times of my Fest shows.

Coaster v2's first show back was a banger, and we're stoked to get cooking on new tunes. I gave my first real shot at mastering a record with Mitar's newest release, Emerald. Would absolutely not consider myself a proper mastering engineer by any means, but I think it turned out pretty a-o-k! Check it below:


After a month of rescheduled dates due to a million things, New Color finally laid down vocals for their new EP, which they're mixing. Really really can't wait to hear it - some of the tightest, most original music I've heard come out of Chicago. If you haven't heard their debut LP that I recorded/mixed, check it out on my "recording" page!

Hopefully going into the studio with Great Deceivers soon to lay down a couple tracks. We've been writing a bunch, and playing with them is a blast.

WOW, lotta shows coming up! Got three this week, including a twofer on Saturday. City On Film tours to Fest at the end of the month, too. Coaster EP is coming along, and our first show with the new lineup is this weekend. Went into MINBAL this past weekend with Winter Classic to begin tracking for a new EP, and mixing Nature's Neighbor's 2nd LP this week.